About Watchdog
The independent surveyor for software.
Watchdog is built and operated by Canine Development, an independent software company in Denmark. We exist to do one thing well: measure code one party builds for another, and issue a number both sides can trust — the Codebase Assurance Index. Not a consultancy that also grades its own work; a measurer with no stake in the result.
The boundary
What Watchdog is — and isn't.
What it is not
- Not a CI scanner or linter
Never scores a line or blocks a merge. - Not a SAST / dataflow engine
Reads their signal; doesn't out-depth one. - Not a coding agent
Never edits, commits, pushes or opens a PR. - Not a certifier
Records the evidence; a named human signs.
What it is
- An independent surveyor
One altitude above your scanners. - One reproducible CAI
Signed, commit-pinned — re-runs to the same number. - A read-only oracle
Serves every finding to your agent over MCP. - A whole-system survey
Architecture, maturity, compliance & risk in one report.
Why we only ever measure
Neutral by structure — the one thing a delivery vendor can't be.
An appraisal is only worth something because the appraiser is independent and paid the same either way.
Never a delivering party
Canine Development never develops or consults on a codebase it also scores — never on both ends of one contract. We sell the thermometer, never the patient's treatment.
No success fees
Revenue is the subscription — identical whether a delivery passes or fails.
Read-only by doctrine
We measure and advise; we never commit, push, or edit your code. The hand on your code is always yours.
Where the work runs
Your code stays in the EU, on hardware we own.
No cloud provider in the path, no third-party AI ever sees your code — defensible to a European buyer, auditor or regulator.
EU data residency
Processed only on hardware we own in Denmark — no cloud provider in the path.
No third-party AI
The language model is self-hosted; your code is never sent to OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
Source never persisted
Each scan clones, analyses, then deletes the working copy — and we never train on your code.
Read-only by doctrine
We measure and advise; we never commit, push, or edit your code.
The company
Canine Development is a registered software company in Denmark (CVR 42092134), in the EU. Watchdog is the product. See the security & data statement, the signable Data Processing Agreement, or contact us for questions, due diligence or on-prem deployment.
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